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Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy


From: chrisv
Subject: Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:08:44 -0600

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> rat wrote:
>>
>> It is still a joke.  What firmware or software have you personally ever 
>> bothered to examine, change, or share?  The whole idea is preposterous.
>
>I haven't, but at <http://www.keegan.org/jeff/tivo/hackingtivo.html>
>you can find that many people have been modifying their TiVos, and at
><http://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132.php>
>you can find people who have read, changed, and shared GPLed software
>on a router, just as the FSF envisions.
>
>Notice that it only takes a handful of people to make the improvements,
>which can then be shared by many others who don't have the skills to do
>it themselves. That's what free software aims to accomplish, and that
>you find it preposterous says more about you than about the FSF.

This "amicus_curious" rat that you are talking-to is a Micro$oft shill
who has been lying and trolling in the Linux advocacy group for years.
Anything that goes-against his precious proprietary software model, he
does not understand.



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